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Clara was selected as one of the speakers for TEDxDirigo on November 7th 2015 in Portland, Maine at the Thompson’s Point Circus Conservatory of America! Visit TEDxDirigo’s website to view the talk online.

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If you are interested in having Clara present at your conference or event, please contact her through the Contact Page.

In case you missed it, check out the presentation on YouTube!Clara is participating in FoodTank.org’s Monthly Speaker Series on Wednesday July 15th at 12PM. She will be leading an hour Webinar on Bringing Four-Season Farming to the Next Generation. For more info and to register, visit Food Tank’s websiteOn Thursday April 30th from 9 am to 12 pm at the Toledo Botanical Garden in Ohio, Clara will speak on season-extension techniques such as using movable greenhouses, Cathedral Tunnels, low-tunnels, cold-frames and quickhoops. This free event is sponsored by the Center for Innovative Food Technology (CIFT), Toledo Botanical Garden, and supported by the Ohio Department of Agriculture specialty crop block grant. For more information, please visit CIFT’s website.

Clara is a featured presenter at this year’s PASA Farming for the Future Winter Conference in State College, PA February 3-7 2015. She will be doing a four-season farming presentation entitled Four Season Forward: The Latest Innovations in Four-Season Vegetable Production. Registration and more information can be found at PASA’s website.

2015 NOFA-NY Winter Conference January 23-25, 2015 Saratoga Springs, NY
Clara is a featured presenter at this year’s NOFA-NY Winter Conference. She will be doing a four-season farming presentation entitled Four Season Forward: The Latest Innovations in Four-Season Vegetable Production and an interactive workshop with Adam Lemieux of Johnny’s Selected Seeds on Modular Cathedral Tunnel Building for Four-Season Vegetable Production. Registration and more information can be found at NOFA-NY’s website.

7th Annual National Young Farmers Conference Dec 3-5, 2014 at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture Clara Coleman and Adam Lemieux of Johnny’s Selected Seeds will be presenting on ‘Designing and Managing the Moveable Greenhouse.’ More information can be found here.

October 14th, 2014 – Mainstreaming: Local Food to Institutions – at Colby College
Clara is the opening keynote for this inspiring event to increase local food supply to Maine’s institutions. For more information and to register for this free event, please visit Maine Farmland Trust’s website.

Modular Cathedral Tunnel Building for Four-Season Vegetable Production Workshop w/Clara Coleman
Sponsored by: Golden Well Farm & Apiaries, 2 Wolves Center and ACORN
Join Clara Coleman on Saturday April 26th as she leads a 3-hour interactive demonstration workshop on how to construct a modular movable Cathedral Tunnel for small-scale four-season vegetable production. With the increased demand for affordable, simple and well-constructed high tunnel structures, Clara’s father Eliot Coleman designed and created this 14′ by 16′ modular movable Cathedral Tunnel at Four Season Farm last season. For as low as $2 per square foot, you can learn where to source materials, how to fabricate parts and the steps involved in constructing a modular Cathedral Tunnel for your farm or home garden. A detailed instruction manual will be provided to attendees along with a supplies list and calculator for estimating cost of materials. Best four-season growing practices, techniques, effective tools, and crop scheduling will also be discussed and time at the end for Q & A. Clara will be assisted by Adam Lemieux, Product Manager of Tools and Supplies at Johnny’s Selected Seeds and the creator of the Tool Dude’s Blog.

Location: The Nash Farm, home of Golden Well Farm & Apiaries 1089 River Road, New Haven VT – View Google Map
Follow signs to Parking area along River Road, walk across the bridge, and then walk up driveway.

Clara is the featured four-season farming presenter at the 2014 Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia Winter Conference in Nanaimo, British Columbia Canada on Sunday, February 23rd 2014. Clara’s sister Melissa Coleman will be giving the opening keynote on this year’s conference theme of Work-Life Balance. Click here for registration information.
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Eliot and Clara will be leading a Cathedral Tunnel building workshop at the 2013 Young Farmers Conference at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture on Friday, December 6th.
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On Tuesday, October 1st, 2013, Clara Coleman will be presenting a Low Tunnel Workshop at the Boyd Street Urban Farm at 5PM in association with Johnny’s Selected Seeds and Cultivating Community.
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On Saturday, August 17th, 2013, Clara Coleman will be the featured farmer for the 2013 Follow the Farmer Seminar at A Joyful Noise Farm in Black Forest, Colorado .

Clara will lead two separate 2-hour workshops at the farm. The workshops will be a hands-on running dialogue with Clara and the small group accompanying her. The goal of the workshop is to give you a first hand view of a working small farm through the eyes of one of the nation’s foremost experts on organic four-season growing.

For more information or to register, please visit A Joyful Noise Farm.
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EARLY SUMMER HARVEST DINNER AT FOUR SEASON FARM

Barbara Damrosch & Eliot Coleman invite you to join –

Clara Coleman and John Piotti of Maine Farmland Trust for an unforgettable dinner prepared and executed by Chef David Levi of the much anticipated Vinland Restaurant (opening in Portland summer 2013)

…and a chance to hear about how four-season farming can help Maine farms thrive.